Blog is Moving

I started this blog in Google’s Blogger which worked very well.  After a while I decided to move it to WordPress, which I did.  And WordPress worked great for a while.  Now I am trying to bring my two blogs together with my business website all under one umbrella – in the realm of SquareSpace.  If you haven’t seen SquareSpace you should check it out.  It’s an interactive online system for creating/publishing websites and blogs.

Going forward – content for this blog will now be found at:
http://amcc.squarespace.com/allens-board/

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Or, you can find it all at www.MillerManor.net

Regards,

Allen

91 Vette

- getting ready for the holiday

- Taken at 9:33 AM on May 24, 2009 – uploaded by ShoZu

Glasses

I liked these glasses, before I stepped on them.

- Taken at 8:03 AM on May 21, 2009 – uploaded by ShoZu

A dog’s life.

It’s a dog’s life. Simba got meatloaf today for her birthday.

- Taken at 8:30 PM on May 17, 2009 – uploaded by ShoZu

- I wish you could s

- I wish you could smell these roses. Fantastic! – Taken at 7:28 AM on May 15, 2009 – uploaded by ShoZu

Wayne Dammert

Joyce and I had the pleasure of meeting (John) Wayne Dammert and his wife Betty Dammert at a recent Volunteer Appreciation dinner at the Newport Aquarium.  Wayne was telling me some stories and Betty was smiling and telling me that he was pulling my leg.  After a while of this, I figured out that she was probably the one pulling my leg and that he was probably giving me the straight stuff.  Like maybe Betty really had been a Radio City Rockette a while ago.  Wayne also told me about working at the Beverly Hills Dinner Club for many years and being involved in the horrible fire that occurred in 1977.   He also told me that he had written a book about the fire – Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire.

After a nice evening at the Newport Aquarium (where I am a volunteer scuba diver), Joyce and I stopped, as we like to do, at the book store.  I found and bought a copy of Wayne Dammert’s book (author – Ron Elliot) and read it this past week.  The tragedy of the Beverly Hills fire occurred a couple years after I moved to Cincinnati.  I remember the event but did not know much of the details.  Wayne’s book is an extensive account of much of the history of the Bevery Hills and much detail about the fire and people involved including many heros and many victims.  It was quite moving for me.

Georgia Aquarium

Joyce and I are in Atlanta for the Dogwood Art Festival. I snuck away on Friday with our friends Ed and Henry and visited the Georgia Aquarium.  I’ve been wanting to see this place since it opened and I finally got my chance.

First let me say that this is a FANTASTIC aquarium.  Many of you know that I have been a volunteer scuba diver at the Newport Aquarium for many years.  I love our aquarium, the people there and the fun I get to have.  Anyone that gets a chance should visit both of these great places.

Dr. Tim of the GA met us and took us topside of the enormous 6.3 million gallon tank that is home to 4 whale sharks, and many, many more marine animals.  We were present and got to observe members of the staff doing their morning feeding of the whale sharks.  Each whale shark is fed by a different staff member using a color coded basket at the end of a long pole.  Two of the whale sharks are fed by husbandry staff standing on a moveable gantry extends across the entire width of the tank.  The other two whale sharks are fed from two rubber rafts using similar baskets on the end of poles.  Each of two staff members pulls their raft down the long side of the tank with one hand on  a fixed rope while they dispense krill from their pole basket with the other hand.  Pretty cool.

After having this great chance to observe the whale shark feeding – we left Dr. Tim and ventured on our own through 3 of the 5 regular ‘environments’ – the Ocean Voyager, Coldwater Quest and Tropical Diver.  We left the River Scout and Georgia Explorer for a future visit.

We watched in amazement for quite a while at the ENOURMOUS observation window into the big tank.  Here we again saw the whale sharks along with many other of the large tank inhabitants.  The size of this windows is just amazing. In the Coldwater Quest – we watched for quite a while the 3 gorgeous Beluga Whales.  They are so greaceful and beautiful and seem to be aware of their visitors.

If you’ve got a minute – check out some of my pictures at http://bit.ly/13yiKO

I think the next time I come to Atlanta I will try to get in on the program where you can actually get in the large tank and swim with the Whale Sharks.

Thanks to Dr. Tim for the nice treat.  And, by the way, Dr. Tim sends regards to all of his friends at the Newport Aquarium.  I won’t name them here for fear that I may forget someone.

The Varsity – Nipsey

The Varsity – Nipsey Russel started here. Carhops on skates. – Taken at 9:37 AM on April 16, 2009 – cameraphone upload by ShoZu

As Will Rogers said

As Will Rogers said – if dogs don’t go to heaven, I want to go where they go. – Taken at 8:57 AM on April 15, 2009 – cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Joyce will have her

Joyce will have her mosaics http://bit.ly/nYhza at the Atlanta Dogwood http://bit.ly/3XRS3 festival this weekend. Booth 29. Come see us.